epidermal pavement cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0000332
Aspect
plant anatomy
Synonyms
exact: célula del pavimento epidermal (Spanish)
exact: 表皮被蓋細胞 (Japanese)
Definition
A shoot epidermal cell that is relatively unspecialized at maturity. [source: POC:curators]
Comment
May have sinuous anticlinal cell walls that overall give a jigsaw like appearance to the epidermis. Pavement cells are epidermal cells that are not directly associated with a stomatal complex or trichome at maturity, but they share similar developmental origins.

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